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I, P. RAYMOND, 2d. PASTENER FOR GLOVES.

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P. F. RAYMOND, 2d, FASTENER FOR GLOVES.

Patented July 20,- 1897.

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UNTTFD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREEhOItN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSE'I S.

FASTENER FOR GLOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 586,692, dated July 20, 1897.

Application filed December 21, 1891. Serial No. 415,795. {No model.)

To all whom it injury concern:

lie it known that I, FRnEnonN F. RAY- MOND, 2d, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful improvement in Fasteners for Gloves and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature;

The invention relates to the form of fasteners for gloves and other articles having two 1nembers-namely, the ball member and the socket member-and it refers especially to the construction of the socket member of the fastener and especially to the means whereby a yielding socket-entrance is provided and the cap of the socket member secured in place to the glove-flap or other material upon which or with which it is used.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a View representing in section the cap of the socket member and in dotted outline an eyelet or tubular fastening. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the cap. Fig. 3 is a view in section, and Fig. at in plan of the eyelet or tubular fastening. Fig. 5 is a view in sec tion, Fig. b in plan, and Fig. 7 in plan inverted, of a piece which acts to turn outwardly the lower edge of the fastening to confine the lower edge of the fastening so turned outwardly and thereby hold the cap to the mate rial and to form the yielding entrance to the socket and also the finish to the inner surface of the glove-flap or material to which the socket member is secured. Fig. 8 represents the various parts of the socket member as sembled upon either side of the glove-flap or material, but before they are secured together. Fig. 9 is a View in section showing the parts secured together and the ball member of the fastener in place in the socket. Fig. 10 represents in perspective the form of eyelet or tubular fastening which I prefer to use. Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 1% illustrate modifled forms showing the cap and the eyelet or cap-fastening in one piece. Fig. 15 is a modification of the piece E.

The cap A may be of any shape or form, and its edge a may be folded, molded, or

turned upon the under surface of the flange h of the eyelet or tubular fasteningB or upon a separate and connecting-collet orbase-plate. The eyelet B has the upper flange b and the barrel Z). This barrel may be of the same diameter throughout, as represented in Fig. 3, or its lower end Z) may be slightly flaring outwardly. as represented in Fig. 14.

The cap and the tubular fastening form one part or section of the socket member and preferably are united together before the socket member is fastened to the glove-flap or material, and when the cap is formed as represented in Figs. 8 and 9 it will be desirable to use in the cap a filling-disk C, of leather,paper,orsimilarmaterial. Thepiece E, which forms the other section of the socket member, is formed of two plates or washers e e. These may be made from one piece of metal, as represented in Fig. 5, or they may be secured together in any desired way.

The upper platec has a hole c of a size somewhat larger than the diameter of the barrel 1) of the eyelet. The lower plate c has an opening a which is somewhat less in size than the diameter of the bore of the barrel b of the eyelet. The said plate before the parts are secured together is also somewhat inclined from the opening e to form the conical or turning surface c. The edge 6 about the opening c is made yielding, resilient, or elastic by means of one or more slits extending inward from the edge thereof and preferably, but not necessarily, ending in the holes 6 (See Fig. 7.) This piece, when the parts of the socket member are assembled, is placed upon the under side of the glove-flap or material, (see Fig. 8,) and a hole having been formed in the fabric of about the diameter of the barrel of the eyelet the barrel pleting the socket of the fastener by bringing the edge e 'of the under plate e sufiiciently within the bore of the eyelet or tubular fasbarrel of the eyelet or fastening depends, of

course, upon the size of the bore of the faste'nin g and the size of the other or ball member of the fastener; The piece therefore some instances a cap may not be used.

provides a means for turning outward the edge of the tubular fastening, a means for holding the edge when thus turned, the upper plate e acting as a washer. It also pro-- vides the yielding entrance to the socket and the finish to the inner surface of the glove flap or material. In the application of the socket member to the material the piece E may be flattened to bring it to a level shape, or it may be left somewhat inclined andso as to produce a flaring or inclined surface a about the opening to the socket, whichwi'll act when thus shaped as a direct centering surface a by which the ball is guided to the opening and into the socket.

Any form of ball member may be used. I prefer that represented in Fig the hollow section. (Z, having the notched end of a diameter slightly greater than the di' ameter of the socket-entrance 0 the neckd and the flange (P and the fastener (i notched in the cavity of the ball, and having the neck (1 which passes through a hole in the glove flap or material to which it is secured, and the flange d In Figs. 11, 12, and 13 I have shown the cap, tubular section, or eyelet of the socket member of the fastener made integral, and when thcyare so made I prefer that the rounded portion f of the cap extend only over the bore of the tubular section and from the base of the rounded portion and flange or folded section f, against which one member of the setting instrument for securing together the two sections of the socket member rests. The same result is obtained, however, by the form represented in Fig. 13, where the space caused by the outward swellf of the cap is filled by a plastic material like cement and which forms a body to hold the cap in shape during \V'ith the form of cap and tubular fastening represented in Figs. 11, 12, and 13 I am enabled to obtain a very small socket member, one that will be applicable to ladies gloves.

It will be understood, of: course, that in The socket member would then comprise the flange, tubular fastening, and thepiece l), and it will be open at the top.

In use the ball member of the Fastener is insertedintotheholec and beingol'a slightly larger size extends it as it is l'orccd through 9, comprising the same, the hole contracting by the resiliency of the plate after the passage of the ball.

In Fig. 15 I have represented the piece E as having but one slit e, extending entirely through the piece from the center, so that the yield of the jaws or edges 9 is lateral in relation to the slit.

In Fig. 14 I have represented the barrel 1) of theeyelet not only as spiit but as having its lower edge flared outward slightly, thereby developing an outward line or fold when bronghtinteeontact with the turning surface a. ll would say also that the piece E may have any number of slits 6 extending outward from the edges e for the purpose of giving the edge a yielding action.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1 claim and. desire to secure by letters Patent of the United States-- 1. In a fastener-of the character specified, a resilient socket member comprising a eyelet having an upper or outer flange ada to rest upon, the surface of the material, a

material bent outwardly intoa recess formed by two plates oi the piece F, the upper plate having a hole e of a size somewhat larger than the diameter of the barrel of the eyelet, and the iowor'plate having an opening a less in size than the diameter of the bore of the barrel of the eyelet, whereby the edge of .thefllpwerr plate surrounding this hole exrel, as and for the purposes described.

2. The combination of an'eyelethaving a flange upon one surface of the material to which it is secured, and a conical piece E comprising superposed conical plates e e, the latter being resiliently united at their outer edge, the upper plate having a hole of size somewhat larger than the diameter of the barrel of the eyelet, the lower plate havinga hole of less size than the diameter of the barrel, the said piece being united to the end of the eyelet opposite its flange by the turning of said end upon the under plate e between it and the plate e, as and for the purposes described.

3. In a fastener oi the character specified, a socket member comprising an eyelet having an integral cap or head f and an outwardly-extending flange j with the socketpicce E fprmed of the two plates e, e, the latter being resilient, as specified, and united to the open entLot' the eyelet as specified, the edge of the plate e surrounding the hole therein, oxtemling within the bore of the barrel oi the eyelet, as and for the purposes de scribed.

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